Comments from the Class of 2014

STRENGTHS:

• Great hands-on training

LIKED BEST:

• My friends

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Variety/severity of pathology

LIKED BEST:

• Class 2014

STRENGTHS:

• Hands-on experience during clinical rotations
• Cardiology blocks and Neurology blocks- both were very clinically relevant, well organized and well taught

LIKED BEST:

• Overcoming the challenges that came my way
• The students & their altruism

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical training
• Amazing colleagues

LIKED BEST:

• Making life-long friends

STRENGTHS:

• Great patient population

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Great faculty
• Great resources to learn from

LIKED BEST:

The supportive staff, the activities

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Down to earth faculty & residents
• Small group learning

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Good classes
• Good clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• Time at KCH

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• Audio lectures

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Camaraderie
• Classmates
• Underserved population

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical experience 

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates- we have had a fantastic four years together and I have made a lot of close friends

STRENGTHS:

• Underserved care- complicated socioeconomic/social environment; large volume

LIKED BEST:

• Daniel Hale Williams Society

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical training
• Lots of responsibility

LIKED BEST:

• Great community of awesome people

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Variety of patients
• Dedicated faculty

LIKED BEST:

• 3rd & 4th year rotations, especially electives in 4th years

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Faculty

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates
• Faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Good

LIKED BEST:

• School

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Faculty
• The wonderful people in Academic Development
• My classmates

LIKED BEST:

• Medicine rotations
• Psych rotation

STRENGTHS:

Hands on clinical training

LIKED BEST:

The people

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical training

LIKED BEST:

• Diversity

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical education
• Student body

LIKED BEST:

• Student body

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

• Living in Brooklyn!

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experiences

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure
• Education on the wards
• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical exposure and experience

STRENGTHS:

• Seeing patients early
• Great clinical training

LIKED BEST:

• Everything

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical exposure

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Hands-on clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• The experience
• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience
• Good education
• Great faculty

LIKED BEST:

• Good team support

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• Flexibility of faculty-made accommodations

STRENGTHS:

• Faculty

LIKED BEST:

• Camaraderie w/ students

STRENGTHS:

• Support, community

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Very thorough

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Support, community

LIKED BEST:

• Faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical years experience
• CBL & small group sessions
• Great class & supportive staff

LIKED BEST:

• My class!

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical med and practicing skills

LIKED BEST:

• Student Life

STRENGTHS:

• The people, the curricula and most importantly the patients!

LIKED BEST:

• The support of the faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Diversity of clinical experience
• Breadth of pathology

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Downstate provided strong clinical experience in the 3rd & 4th year

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Friendly administration

LIKED BEST:

• Student Life

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Support staff

LIKED BEST:

• Staff & faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience- great exposure to pathology & physicians

LIKED BEST:

• My experience w/ patient interaction on the floor

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical rotations

LIKED BEST:

• Proximity to home, location

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on education
• Quality of attendings

LIKED BEST:

• Learning how to manage patients
• Quality of rotating hospitals

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on during rotations
• Great mentors

LIKED BEST:

• 4th year

STRENGTHS:

• I was exposed to a wide variety of cases
• Lectures and small groups were great
• I was able to rotate through and experience many hospitals

LIKED BEST:

• All the amazing and helpful people I've met

STRENGTHS:

• The clinicals

LIKED BEST:

• Psych at Nursing Station 52

STRENGTHS:

• The experience

LIKED BEST:

• The teachers
• The class
• The students

STRENGTHS:

• First hand experience
• Readiness for real world

LIKED BEST:

• Willingness of faculty to teach

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical clerkship

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical clerkship

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical years were very good
• Very well organized

LIKED BEST:

• The attendings & residents were always willing to teach

STRENGTHS:

• As a 3rd & 4th year medical student, I was able to have hands on experience in the clinical setting. 

LIKED BEST:

• I liked my clinical experience.  Electives were also great learning experiences

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on experience
• Variety of cases

LIKED BEST:

• Patient interactions
• Lectures
• Grand Rounds

STRENGTHS:

• Student body
• The approachable doctors
• The Patients
• Location

LIKED BEST:

• All of the above

STRENGTHS:

• Patient exposure
• Great, fun, knowledgeable faculty

LIKED BEST:

• My friends and classmates

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical training was extensive and prepared me to be a resident

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experiences
• Teaching

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates
• Rotations

STRENGTHS:

• Experience on the floors, great attendings, wonderful faculty

LIKED BEST:

• The students and the floor work

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Hands on environment
• Given a lot of responsibility early on Research

LIKED BEST:

• Orientation
• Camaraderie

STRENGTHS:

• Great patient experience
• Very amazing faculty who are dedicated to education
• Location

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates
• The patients
• Faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

• Camaraderie
• Faculty who like to teach

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure
• Atmosphere & camaraderie of student body

LIKED BEST:

• Rotations- Block parties
• Friends

STRENGTHS:

• Exposure to pathologies
• Class community

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates
• Brooklyn

STRENGTHS:

• The diversity

LIKED BEST:

• Carrel B

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Clinical
• Great people

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure

LIKED BEST:

• People
• Diversity

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• People
• Patients & students

LIKED BEST:

• Student Center

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical years were the best

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Exceptional clinical education w/ opportunities for meaningful involvement in clinical care.  Unparalleled diversity of both patients and my fellow students.

LIKED BEST:

• The students and faculty.  I have never worked with such a loving and dynamic group of people.

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical hands-on experience

LIKED BEST:

• The people I met (students, residents, attendings)

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Learning medicine, meeting new people

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical, hands on training

LIKED BEST:

• Amazing classmates!

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• 3rd & 4th year clinical years at the Downstate and Kings County sites

LIKED BEST:

• My fellow students

STRENGTHS:

• Independence

LIKED BEST:

• Fun

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Found great friendships

STRENGTHS:

• Curriculum, Academic Development

LIKED BEST:

• Campus events

STRENGTHS:

• Clinicals

LIKED BEST:

• Clinicals

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• My class, professors and attendings

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical exposure
• Teaching all year round!

LIKED BEST:

• Working with the people
• Making friends

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical experience was unparalleled

LIKED BEST:

• Getting the necessary clinical skills

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical years

LIKED BEST:

• People

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical education
• Engaging faculty
• Great student class

LIKED BEST:

• Students

STRENGTHS:

• Great teachers
• Great clinical experience
• Great student body

LIKED BEST:

• The people I worked with including students & faculty
• Being able to work with underserved population

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical education

LIKED BEST:

• Good people, fun clinical experiences

STRENGTHS:

• The variety of practice settings within urban communities.
• Contact with those for which medical care access is a continued issue.
• Variety of faculty and professional role model, a vast majority of which showed compassion for patients and students.
• Heterogeneity of the student body and community groups.

LIKED BEST:

• People, people, people. Always people.

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience is unmatched

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• People

LIKED BEST:

• People

STRENGTHS:

• Excellent clinical and hands on training
• A wonderful and rewarding patient population to work with

LIKED BEST:

• Meeting all my classmates and making life long friends

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

• Tutoring
• Block parties

STRENGTHS:

• Responsive faculty
• Technology in education

LIKED BEST:

• Activities at student center

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure
• Advanced pathology
• Hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

• My fellow classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience
• Significant name in "street cred"

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates & Green Deli guys

STRENGTHS:

• Diversity of pathology seen on the wards

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical training
• Hands on

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical rotations

LIKED BEST:

• The people & atmosphere

STRENGTHS:

• Excellent support from staff and faculty to develop individual learning
• habits and clinical skills
• Patients are incredible in this community.

LIKED BEST:

• Awesome student body

STRENGTHS:

• Awesome teachers
• Great student diversity
• Brooklyn

LIKED BEST:

• Meeting awesome people

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure and strong academic support

LIKED BEST:

• The friends I made

STRENGTHS:

• Good teachers

LIKED BEST:

• 4th year
• People are relaxed

STRENGTHS:

• Great teaching
• Great staff
• Lots of hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• People, patient population, clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• The clinical experience

STRENGTHS:

• Camaraderie among students

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Great faculty and student body

STRENGTHS:

• Excellent teaching

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Fantastic clinical education.  I feel prepared for everything.

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical training

LIKED BEST:

• People

STRENGTHS:

• Lots of clinical exposure
• Prepared me for residency
• Good patient exposure

LIKED BEST:

• The camaraderie of the class

STRENGTHS:

• The diversity of the patient population

LIKED BEST:

• My friendships

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• The hands on clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• All the great people I have had the privilege of being friends and working with them

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical

LIKED BEST:

• Flexible

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical years
• Opportunities for hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

• Literally everything

STRENGTHS:

• Great exposure to diverse populations
• Friendly co-students
• Enthusiastic staff & attendings
• Virtually every hour relevant to teaching

LIKED BEST:

• I matured a lot in the last 4 years have both personally & in terms of my educational goals.

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical training
• Amazing colleagues

LIKED BEST:

• Making lifelong friends

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

• The people I met

STRENGTHS:

• diversity

LIKED BEST:

• Sense of community

STRENGTHS:

• Clinicals

LIKED BEST:

• The student body

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience.  Strong tie to community experience

LIKED BEST:

• Rotations and KCHC

STRENGTHS:

• The clinical experience
• Mentorship and teaching by residents

LIKED BEST:

• The environment, students and faculty were a pleasure to work with

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical training

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Great teaching, great hospitals

LIKED BEST:

• Camaraderie 

STRENGTHS:

• Amazing clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Clerkships and amazing classmates

STRENGTHS:

• The people

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Unique clinical experience with many opportunities to learn hands on
• Wonderful patient population with unique, complicated problems
• Character building challenges in every rotation
• Diverse class of students

LIKED BEST:

• The classmates and life long friends I made
• The chance to live in NY

STRENGTHS:

• Hands on training

LIKED BEST:

• Great clinical training

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical challenges

LIKED BEST:

• My classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical education

LIKED BEST:

• Students and faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical training was amazing.
• Students were amazing.

LIKED BEST:

• I made friends for a lifetime.

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure with a diverse patient population
• Great faculty that really cared for students education

LIKED BEST:

• Fellow students
• Faculty

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical education- great education
• The faculty really supports the students

LIKED BEST:

• The people, classmates, faculty, etc

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Diversity of pathology

LIKED BEST:

• Classmates
• Gym

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical exposure, faculty, and students!!!

LIKED BEST:

• Residential Life & Student Center

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical rotations/experience
• Patient population

LIKED BEST:

• Diverse student populations

STRENGTHS:

• It gives me an MD

LIKED BEST:

• Parties, of course

STRENGTHS:

• Diversity among students & patients

LIKED BEST:

• Students are amazing

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Podcasting of lectures and posting of slides

LIKED BEST:

• Great stories of interesting patients

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Awesome class

LIKED BEST:

• The people

STRENGTHS:

• Complete, varied, good knowledgeable teachers and intro to real life scut work

LIKED BEST:

• Primary care

STRENGTHS:

• Great clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Great friendships

STRENGTHS:

• Great school

LIKED BEST:

• People

STRENGTHS:

• The strengths are good clinical clerkships with diverse patient population.

LIKED BEST:

• Studying in a place where diversity is celebrated and being involved in club activities.

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• Class camaraderie
• Mentorship

LIKED BEST:

• My class

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience
• People

LIKED BEST:

• 3rd year

STRENGTHS:

• Good clinical experience, very hands on very early on

LIKED BEST:

• 3rd year.
• Fellow classmates

STRENGTHS:

• Classmates & faculty, clinical experiences

LIKED BEST:

• Same as above

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical experience

LIKED BEST:

• Interaction with patients and faculty support

STRENGTHS:

• Some excellent faculty clinicians who lead by example

LIKED BEST:

• Brooklyn

STRENGTHS:

• Academic advising was the best department for students at Downstate

LIKED BEST:

• It's finally over

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical rotations
• Hands on experience

LIKED BEST:

• Experience
• Relationships w/ classmates & professors

STRENGTHS:

• Diversity, lots of experience

LIKED BEST:

• My peers

STRENGTHS:

• Clinical education

LIKED BEST:

• Diversity

STRENGTHS:

• Patient population-wide exposure to medicine

LIKED BEST:

• Different clerkships